"The country is heading toward a clash and a civil war," warned Morsi's political opposition party leader after the President rebuffed demands for stability from the military (or else). As Bloomberg notes, the vaguely worded statement from Morsi's office that they would continue to walk the "path that was outlined" regardless of "any statements that could deepen the divisions between the sons of the nation, and could threaten social peace," is as clear a snub to the coup-threat as it comes without directly addressing them and has merely served to bolster the anti-Morsi protesting crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Growing fears of tensions spilling over - and a closure of the Suez Canal - have pushed WTI crude prices back above $99. With 33 hours to the Military's deadline and crowds swelling even further, the celebrations yesterday are beginning to turn to anger once again.

wait a fucking minute... Egypt is so yesterday, we got Syria to deal with then Iran first... somebody in the NWo is gonna get really pissed about this ... how come we never have time to do it right the first time but always have time to go back and do it over, again

I went there for two days in April of 2012. I basically went from the hotel to work and then directly back to the hotel. Wanted to go see the pyrimids but didn't want to risk it - carrying a blue passport and all. I figured I'd be going back at a later date when things calmed down and I would see them then. It's not looking good.

If I do go back, does anyone know how to say "please don't kill me. I'm Canadian" in Aribic?

I junked ya for referencing that evil Statanic-worshiping fucktard ... an icon that embodies everything that's wrong with our society and culture. If people didn't give attention to these creeps, mbbe they'd go away.

That reminds me, we saw Superman (we like movies) last weekend. The man of steel takes down a surveillance drone that was spying on him and smashes it into the ground. I cheered. My wife looked at me with her 3D glasses and shook her head.

I'm guessing the disney movies will be better than the first 3 episodes... given the director and their recent success with "real" movies, like tron legacy (which was basically error free... mind you, it didn't risk anything either, but it didn't fuck anything up... all in all it didn't push the world of movies anywhere, but relative to its peers, it was really good).

I typically hate pg-13 movies, but every once and a while there is one worth sitting through. If we get another jar-jar, I'll lose my shit. Further, the story (including political subject matter) was simply too heavy handed... kind of like the "dilldozer" on idiocracy (which is much more acceptible because from the audience's perspective, it was meant to be over the top... not so much for lucas and co)... While you can find similarities to the present political environment, they are only on the most superficial of level... If you really want to make a political piece, then do your homework and make a go of it... don't pussyfoot about.

This is funny as I ultimately had the exact same response. I just started saying there are only 3 movies that episodes 1-3 didn't happen. I even thought about writing plots for the first 3 to fill in the gap.

They already have the replacement. It's Manti Teo, and the movie is "Broke Lineback Manti". Manti Teo gives an Oscar winning performance in the unbelievable true story that combines Rudy, Brian's Song, You Got Mail, and Victor Victoria. Currently playing at San Diego venues, and select cities throughout the USA later this year.

Very seriously it is all about bread in Egypt ... they have no solution to feed their people, which is why the military may not even want to rule there

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Egypt might be the world tipping point showcasing the horror of out-of-control birth rates by poor people in Africa

For years now Egyptians have been living on food subsidies given to them, while multiplying babies exponentially

But Egypt is mostly desert, much farmland is ruined, and they have no viable large scale economy or industry

And if the world sends them money and food they will just have more babies

In their blind desperate fury the Egyptians are turning on each other, or on differing political groups or on religious minorities, like their 10 % Coptic Christians, or Shia or other minority Muslims

But the real problem is continually exploding over-population, by poor uneducated unemployed people, Egyptians who then mostly cut the genitals of their female children as well as circumcising the boys

Egypt is a crazy place

As it sinks into famine, the world will confront: Is there any other solution to over-population other than measures of repression and dictatorship ?

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The rest of the world seems to be able to develop the common sense to limit numbers of children ... but not Africans, no matter what.

A couple decades back, there was famine in Ethiopia, when a large portion of the 40 million Ethiopians were hungry

World poured in money and aid and food, better farming techiques etc.

Now there are 80 million Ethiopians, population has doubled in no time. And it seems there is famine again ...

Demographers are hesitantly pointing out that the last continent of population boom, is Africa, and in fact most of the next 3 billion people to be added to the current world 7 billion, will come from Africa

From Canadian journalist (Mr) Gwynne Dyer, 'The African Population Disaster':

« ... much tutting and shaking of heads over its prediction that we will be ten billion by the end of the century. But almost nobody will have the temerity to point out that this is almost entirely an African problem ...

« The United Nations Population Fund’s own numbers tell the story. Africa currently has one-seventh of the world’s people: just over one billion. But during the rest of the century, the UN agency predicts, this single continent will add an extra 2.6 billion people, more than tripling in population, while all the rest of the world adds just half a billion. ...

« If it weren’t for the African population boom, the world’s population would never exceed 7.5 billion. »

...and meanwhile one of the stupid parties just up and decided that life begins with fertilization, and plan to beat back women's reproductive rights. They just love them fetuses. Don't care much for the actual babies, mind you, but loves them fetuses. They offer protection up until the time of birth, then you are on your own.

once upon a time, the Nile Valley was fertile to grow enough to sustainably feed its population w/ surplus'o'plenty. the fertility of that valley is upon which the Egyptian Empire was built & survived thousands of years.

now the Egyptian military ekes out the little remaining nutrients in the desert soil to grow cotton for the Gapas the starving masses erupt at the new & improved puppet show admist the ancient ruins while the availability of bread is dependent on the Latest, Greatest Empire whose fertile plains are being desertified to grow synthetic crops for mass consumption.

Unlikely. They want to be players there and install stable, puppet regimes. Blowback is a bitch. The CIA and other intelligence agencies like to ignore unintended consequences--they sow instability and then try to guide what happens after that and if it doesn't work out, they just wash their hands of it and claim the chaos is what they intended in the first place.

As I have stated here and elsewhere many times, one can argue all one wants about worldwide temperature measurements, but in the end the ongoing, worldwide melting of glacial ice, both polar and alpine, on EVERY continent, is irrefutable proof that the world IS warming, and has been warming for at least the last century.

Irrefutable proof is not a scientific concept, however, the statistical probabilility of non-anthropogenic factors being responsible for the observed increase in global temperature is basically zero once you take into account the measured IR spectra, human C02 emissions etc...

The temperature data of the past 150 years cannot be explained without including the effect of C02 emitted by humans.

And sorry, the climate doesn't cycle all of its own accord, it responds to imbalances in the energy flow at measured at the top of the atmosphere. More energy coming in or being trapped must be compensated for by a rise in temperature until the earth reaches a new equilibrium. The Milankovitch cycles responsible for the Ice Ages over the past 800,000 years are a perfect example....

"The temperature data of the past 150 years cannot be explained without including the effect of C02 emitted by humans."

Then why, after a global economic crash/slowdown after 2008, haven't we seen a downward blip in measurable CO2 levels? Has the press ignored/censored this? Is measurement methodology too insensitive to catch a difference? I'd be much interested if you know of a source that catches said slowdown in terms of CO2...

[Edit: 8,000 years of empirical "trends" is irrefutable in your mind, yet the exodus that was 3,500 years ago must be discarded because it's only recorded in one place. Tell us who recorded the data 8,000 years ago, shmuck-meister? You can put another check mark in your "loss" column.]

BTW, anybody who thinks the globe isn't warming is a moron, exactly like those Republicans that make completely asinine statements about the female reproductive system...

Agreed. Or like those Democrats who make completely asinine statements about firearms, or about gov't debt. Let's show some moderate political/social intelligence and ditch the fucking divide agenda already..

There is big difference between verifiable empirical facts, i.e. the functioning of a woman's reproductive system or the IR absorption properties of C02 and the subjective opinions of people on the 2nd amendment and the like...